Sash holder



April 5, 1938. A R FULTON 2,113,019

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ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 5, 1938 UN-irEov STAT-Es SASHI HOLDERv AEllensburg; Wash.

Application February 11, 1936";j Srial'Not? 63,3425

3 Claims.

This invention relates to sash holders and the object thereof, generallystated, is to provide perfected and especially simplified andinexpensive mechanism adapted to securely retain a Window sash at anyselected point within its range of movement; more specific objects beingto develop a structural assembly permitting ready installation withoutthe necessity of skilled carpentry services and to provide a sash holderwhich in opleration prevents marring or in any manner whatsoeverdefacing the surface of the window frame or the sash.-

The foregoing, together with further and more particular objects andadvantages, will appear in the course of the following detaileddescription and claims, the invention consisting in the novelconstruction, adaptation, and combination of parts hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a front elevation indicating the now preferred embodiment ofthe invention as the same is applied to a conventional window assembly,only such portions of the latter as apply to the invention beingrepresented.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section thereof taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken through the windowassembly on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and illustrating the invention inside elevation; and

Fig. 4 is a top plan View of the facing plate which is utilized tosupport the sash-holding arms.

Designated in said drawing by the numeral 5 is the jamb constituting theside bar of a window frame. B and I indicate the inner stop and partlngbars which lie at each side of the frame to form channels in which thewindow sash, indicated by 8, is slidably received, said sash in thelateral edges of the stiles 8 being vertically channeled for thereception of the bead 9 of a weather-stripping member I secured in aconventional manner to the side bar 5.

According to my inventionl provide, carried by the sash and preferablyprovided at each side of the same, a pair of companion sash-holding armswhich are each formed with a vertical slot and hingedly mounted tolocate the slots in the approximate plane of the stile channel, theslots acting such that one edge of the same operates as a binding wall,the arms being oppositely movable about their respective hinges as anaxis in effecting movement of the binding walls of the slots into andfrom cramping positions as respects the weather-stripping bead.

Said arms, indicated by II, are desirably formed from relativelytriangular blanks, preferably metal, which at one end are rolled to formhinge bearings I2, the opposite or free end being configured as afinger-engaging shelf I3, and the outer lateral edge being slotted toprovide the referred-to` binding wall I4. For the reception of sai-darms a recess is cut in the sash stile and this recess desirably isshaped to conform to the general contour of the arms, terminating to therear of the stile in a cavity I for the reception of the hinge-formingends of the arms. Within the recess and secured by screws I'I to overliethe rear wall thereof is a facing plate I6 formed with an angularextension IG' which projects into and seats against the rear Wall ofthe. cavity I5, pins I8 supported by said extension acting as arborsover Which the arms Il are hingedly mounted. Said pins desirably aredisposed at opposite sides of and equidistantly spaced from the medianline of the recess and preferably lie in planes common to the upper andlower surfaces of a leg extension secured to the facing plate, the armslying above and below the leg and being expressed outwardly as respectsone another under the influence of a compression spring 2I carried in aterminal loop 22 of the leg 20.

In a manner which is believed clear, the spring 2I normally acts toexpress the arms I I and actuate the walls I4 of the slots into bindingengagement to the weather-stripping bead, manual compression of thespring through the exertion of linger pressure upon the protrudingshelves I3 influencing the arms against the stop surfaces of the leg 20to obtain, through the arcuate travel of the arms, a progressiverecession of the binding walls I4 from the bead.

Modifications of the invention will readily appear, it being myintention that the same be conned only as by the limitations which occurin the claims.

What I claim, is:-

1. Mechanism for use with a sliding sash for holding the sash inadjusted positions relative to a weatherstripped window jamb, the sashbeing of that character in which a vertical slot is provided to receivethe lamb-carried weatherstrip element, the mechanism comprising abacking plate adapted to be secured against the back wall of a recesscut in the side member of the sash, a pair of horizontally-projectingvertically-spaced stud pins carried by the plate, companion grippingarms pivotally supported by the pins for opposing movements into andfrom horizontal positions, the arms being formed in their outer lateraledges with vertically aligned slots adapted to register in theirhorizontal positions With the sash slot, and a spring carried by theplate to influence the arms directively from one another whereby, inoperating location relative to the sash, the front and rear Walls of thearm slots bind the Weatherstrip element to lock the sash againstvertical movement in the jamb.

2. The structure dened in claim 1 wherein a terminally-looped plateelement is fixed to the backing plate in the space between the arms, thelooped end thereof providing a socket for the reception of the springand the upper and lower edge surfaces acting as stops to limit thecontractive spring-compressing movement of the arms.

3. Mechanism for use with a sliding sash to hold the sash in adjustedpositions relative to a metal-Weatherstripped Window jamb, the sashbeing of that character having a vertical slot in its side piece toreceive the Weatherstrip element, said mechanism comprising a backingplate adapted to overlie the back Wall of a recess cut in said sidepiece of the sash, a pair of horizontally projecting pins carried by thebacking plate to lie in vertically spaced relation Within the recess,and companion gripping arms pivotally mounted on the pins for opposingmovements Within the recess into and from horizontal positions, saidarms in the outer lateral edges thereof having vertically aligned slotsadapted, when located horizontally Within the recess, tol register withthe sash slot whereby the front and rear Walls of the arm slots act tobind the Weatherstrip element and thereby lock the sash against verticalmovement relative to the jamb when inuenced in opposite directions fromthe horizontal.

LOYD R. FULTON.

